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Apple Logic Pro 8 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Overview of the Logic Pro Interface

The Sound Effects view offers effect-related category buttons such as Explosions, Foley,
or People.

Column view offers a standard Mac OS X column file menu that is hierarchically
separated into All, By Genres, By Instruments, By Moods, and Favorites search criteria.

 View buttons: Click to switch between the three views. The left button switches to

Column view, the second button (featuring the note icon) switches to Music view,
and the third button (featuring the FX icon) switches to Sound Effects view.

 View pop-up menu: Restricts displayed loops to a specific loop library.
 Search field: Type text in the field to display files with names that contain the search

text string.

 Category buttons (Music and Sound Effects view only): Click to display files matching

the category in the Search Results list.

 Category columns (Column view only): Choose a category column to display its

subcategories.

 Search Results list: Displays all loops that match the set search criteria.
 Volume slider: Adjusts the playback level of the selected file.

Category columns